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Subject: Backroom Quotes

Crescent opened this issue on Oct 02, 2002 ยท 9 posts
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Crescent ( ) posted Wed, 02 October 2002 at 11:46 PM ยท edited Sun, 19 January 2025 at 5:44 AM

I found this quote and thought it would be great for the backroom. I know dialyn has posted some great ones as well. If anyone has some quotes from authors, etc., that they'd like to share, please post them. " ... there are two kinds of critics in life: those who criticize you because they want you to fail and those who criticize you because they want you to succeed." THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN (syndicated newspaper columnist.)

tresamie ( ) posted Thu, 03 October 2002 at 12:00 AM

I love it, and so very true.

Fractals will always amaze me!

ChuckEvans ( ) posted Thu, 03 October 2002 at 9:51 AM

Ditto, tres!

Knot4u ( ) posted Thu, 03 October 2002 at 9:58 PM

Hmm I am afraid I know not who to crdit for this, but it was to good to just pass by. Poetry is not the meanderings of an intelligent mind, flippant musings, cocktail party talk jumbled up and repeated hurly-burly. Rather, poetry is clarity: plain and ordinary speech, about plain and ordinary things. In fact, some of the best poetry is often about the seemingly most unpoetic of things.

dialyn ( ) posted Thu, 03 October 2002 at 10:15 PM

It wasn't from a class you took, was it? It shows up in course materials on the website: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/il/courses/syl/ENGL_0050l.html (if you back up through the pages, you can find the authors) I can't help it...I used to have a job researching reference questions and the Internet makes it all too easy for me. :(

Knot4u ( ) posted Thu, 03 October 2002 at 10:35 PM

woo hoo.. I never took the class though I did see this on the net.. so .. I would have to say you have once again proven your wonderous ability.

dialyn ( ) posted Fri, 04 October 2002 at 10:26 AM

Theodore Sturgeon ... Sturgeon's Law - "95% of Science Fiction is crap, but then again, 95% of everything is crap." He's another favorite of mine. :)

ChuckEvans ( ) posted Fri, 04 October 2002 at 12:02 PM

Delicious stuff. Tks for posting.

Knot4u ( ) posted Thu, 10 October 2002 at 10:46 PM

trust in your heart... listen to your soul... dont force the pen and the truth will show

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